Giovanni Peruzzini (June 6, 1815 – May 16, 1869) was an Italian opera librettist, poet, and translator.
[1] Peruzzini began writing opera libretti in the early 1840s, and held the post of resident poet at La Fenice until 1848.
His first libretto was for Giovanni Pacini's Il duca d'Alba (1842, La Fenice).
Later that year he wrote the libretto to Giovanni Battista Ferrari's opera Pietro Candiano IV.
He wrote several opera libretti for the composer Lauro Rossi; including Il borgomastro di Schiedam (1844), Cellini a Parigi (1845), Le sabine (1852), and La sirena (1855).